Fiction in translation
The Emma Press Potato Potato
Book SynopsisA fun nursery rhyme about potatoes written across a long strip of potato peel. Part of the second batch of Bicki-Books, a collectible series of postcard-sized picture books which each feature a classic Latvian poem. Suitable for children aged 3+.
£999.99
The Emma Press Mole
Book SynopsisWho would imagine that a family of moles has built a metro system right under our feet – and that the little mounds you see in the fields are actually their subway train stations?Part of the second batch of Bicki-Books, a collectible series of postcard-sized picture books which each feature a classic Latvian poem. Suitable for children aged 3+.
£999.99
The Emma Press Emil
Book SynopsisA love poem to Emil! Part of the second batch of Bicki-Books, a collectible series of postcard-sized picture books which each feature a classic Latvian poem. Suitable for children aged 3+.
£999.99
The Emma Press I want a little puppy dog
Book SynopsisThis man wants a dog and will stop at nothing to get it! Beautifully illustrated with embroidery.Part of the second batch of Bicki-Books, a collectible series of postcard-sized picture books which each feature a classic Latvian poem. Suitable for children aged 3+.
£999.99
Banipal Books A Rebel named Hanan al-Shaykh
Book SynopsisMain feature: London-based Lebanese author Hanan al-Shaykh. Poems by late Lebanese poet Bassam Hajjar now read widely as "inspirational" and poems by Iraqi exile Adnan Mohsen. Three writers from Syria, Morocco and Tunisia explore their respective countries' dilemmas: Khalil Sweileh, Nassima Raoui and Chafik Targui. Plus 2019 IPAF shortlist novels.
£9.50
Banipal Books The Beautiful Creatures of Fadhil Al-Azzawi
Book SynopsisBanipal 65 celebrates Iraq novelist and poet Fadhil Al-Azzawi, renowned for his “conceptual leaps, rich references and linguistic surprises”. Ariel Dorfman described him as “an Iraqi master poet who opens up all the despair and tenderness of our times”. Plus fiction and poetry from Kuwait, Yemen, Morocco, Egypt and Palestine.
£9.50
Banipal Books Elias Khoury, The Novelist
Book SynopsisBanipal 67 – Elias Khoury, The Novelist presents a major feature on the celebrated Lebanese and international author, with excerpts from his latest novel Stella Maris, the second in the Children of the Ghetto trilogy, and a chapter from his first novel (until now not translated), plus in-depth articles on the corpus of novels including translations of his works into Hebrew, and reviews of his early novels. • We bid Adieu to poet Amjad Nasser in Fakhri Saleh’s essay on his poetry collections. • We introduce two winners of the Moroccan Argana International Poetry Prize – Wadih Saadeh and Hawad. • Also featured are the six shortlisted novels of the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. • Plus works by two well-known Iraqi writers: Muhammad Khudayyir and Muhsin al-Musawi – and poems by three young poets from Lebanon, Palestine and Tunisia. MANY THANKS to all our contributors, authors, translators, and editors, who have been working from home under coronavirus restrictions.
£9.50
Banipal Books Banipal – Short Stories
Book SynopsisCovid-19 is still with us, spreading its deathly virus, killing thousands, keeping us in our homes, making us keep our distance wherever we go, wearing masks whenever we might get within a metre or so of another person, and creating virtual, digital events. Over the months it has changed the world, and till now it’s hard to see an end to it. All our lives are being transformed by it.On 8 April, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award announced its 2020 winners – Banipal Magazine won the Publishing and Technology award. What a huge honour and accolade for this 23-year-old literary magazine. It is a tremendous boost to our very necessary translation project. We were pleased, also, to hear a mention of our new project of a second magazine – Revista Banipal for modern Arab literature in Spanish translation.Banipal 68 – Short Stories introduces 21 diverse, engaging and thoughtful stories, mostly for the first time in English. First, from the award ceremony of the Almultaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story, there is winner Sheikha Helawy and finalists Sofiene Rajab, Sherif Saleh and Mahmoud Al-Rahbi, and then three further great short story writers, Muhammad Khudayyir , Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa and Mohammed Al-Sharekh. Plus chapters from two novels – Free Fall by Abeer Esber and A Small Death by Mohammed Hasan Alwan. Plus works by two major poets – Moncef Ouhaibi, winner of the 2020 Sheikh Zayed Award for Literature, and Abdo Wazen. Plus interview with Mohamed Berrada and essay by Bothayna al-Essa on her writings. And letters from Ghassan Kanafani to Denys Johnson-Davies. A HUGE THANKS to all our contributors who have continued working from home under coronavirus restrictions, and to our socially-distancing printer and distributor.
£9.50
Banipal Books Banipal 69: 9 New Novels
Book SynopsisBanipal 69 opens by saluting in texts by two of its major authors, the city of Beirut that was devastated by the calamitous explosion at its port on 4 August: Beirutshima is a resounding and moving poem by the poet Abdo Wazen that describes vividly and painfully the sudden and awful moments of the destruction as “tongues of hellfire shot out” … “in a nightmare moment like eternity”, in a brilliant translation by Paul Starkey. Elias Khoury’s essay The City of Strangers begins by looking at the metaphor of Beirut as an apple, from Mahmoud Darwish’s poem “Beirut”, although it was “born a pine tree on the shores of the Mediterranean”, and how the explosion then sees “the monster bite through the metaphor’s back and tear the metaphor to pieces.”The main feature introduces nine new Arabic novels by authors from Tunisia, Oman, Bahrain, Algeria, Sudan, Qatar and Egypt. In a change from including a brief synopsis of a novel with the excerpts in translation, in this issue eight novels are fully reviewed alongside the translated excerpts while one includes an interview with the author.
£9.50
Banipal Books Banipal 70 - Mahmoud Shukair, Writing Jerusalem
Book SynopsisBanipal 70 – Mahmoud Shukair, Writing Jerusalem is a rich issue of diverse authors and literary news to inspire and enthuse you in this continuing time of Covid-19.The main feature on Palestinian author Mahmoud Shukair is a gift to the great Jerusalemite on his 80th birthday – which took place in March this year – with articles, short stories, reviews of his two collections in English translation, and his trilogy of novels of Jerusalem family life.Two recent Arabic novels are reviewed and excerpted: At Rest in the Cherry Orchard by Iraqi author Azher Jirjees, and No One Prayed over Their Graves by Syrian author Khaled Khalifa. Also included, a memorable short story “A Bicycle Brings an Old Comrade” by Egyptian author Hassan Abdel Mawgoud.Lebanese author Alawiya Sobh talks to Katia al-Tawil about her latest novel To Love Life, with three chapters excerpted.Guest writer is Gibraltarian poet and translator Trino Cruz, working in both Spanish and English, with selected poems from The Fertile Shore.Plus an interview with the editors of the Maktoob project, which translates and publishes Arabic literature in Hebrew.
£9.50
Banipal Books The Madness of Despair
Book SynopsisThe Madness of Despair tells the story of Maliha, who is living in London with her husband Nafie after an arranged marriage in their distant Arab homeland. The couple become good friends with Doctor Nadim, a fellow exile, but in the twists and turns of the friendship, the men’s nostalgia for their old lives – and old ways of living – come into conflict with Maliha’s ambition to live and love freely and make something of her new life now she’s settled in London. Though ready to throw off the constraints of her disastrous marriage at the slightest turn, Maliha is ill-prepared for the fire of emotions that overcomes her, leading to unforeseen consequences for all three. It is a powerful narrative that reveals just how much psychological suffering and cultural displacement can upset the most ordinary of aspirations for life and love.
£19.80
Banipal Books Banipal 72 – Iraqi Jewish Writers
Book SynopsisThis unique feature on Iraqi Jewish writers includes short stories, excerpts from novels, and poems – written by 17 authors – all of whom are of Iraqi descent. For several centuries, Iraqi Jews were key contributors to Iraq’s rich social and cultural tapestry – active in all areas of life as novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, musicians, composers, singers, and artists. Sadly, all this came to a tragic end with the massive transfer-emigration and forced displacement of Iraqi Jews in the 1950s to Israel. The feature also includes introductory essays about the authors and poets, who are of different generations, traversing a wide range of languages – from the poetry of the Mani brothers at the turn of the 20th century to the works of Almog Behar and Mati Shemoelof in the early noughties. The texts raise universal questions of belongingness, exile, diaspora, cross-national affinities, and cross-linguistic possibilities. All texts were either translated directly from Arabic (approximately two-thirds) or from Hebrew, with one written originally in English.
£9.50
Banipal Books Banipal 73 Fiction Past and Present
Book SynopsisBanipal 73 - Fiction Past and Present is a delicious mix of pioneering, emerging and established authors from around the Arab world. With short stories by three pioneering writers - Emile Habiby, Fuad al-Takarli and Mohamed Choukri and works by established novelists Ezzat el-Kamhawi (The Travellers' Room) and Emna Rmili (Beach of Souls). Also the first time in English translation for fiction writers Reem Al-Kamali, Mohammed Alnaas, Dima al-Choukr, Khalid Al-Nassrallah and Bushra Khalfan in our feature on the six shortlisted novels of the 2022 IPAF.
£9.50
Vagabond Voices When the Storm Fell Silent
Book SynopsisEstonians believe their greatest writer to be the prolific novelist and translator A.H. Tammsaare whose most famous work is his famous pentalogy, Truth and Justice, which traces Estonia's dramatic history from the 1860s to the 1930s. Vagabond Voices is publishing the third volume of the pentalogy, After the Storm Fell Silent, following on from Volume I, Vargamäe in which deals with the peasantry and at the end introduces the protagonist Indrek, and Volume II whose title is simply Indrek and recounts his education in the city. Both those volumes have already been published by Vagabond Voices, and has sold well in spite of their considerable bulk. In Volume III Indrek finds himself unemployed and alone in a hostile world that is beginning to fall apart. The 1905 Revolution, which would be overshadowed later by the one in 1917, is just starting and the pentalogy is shifting from the personal and the familial to the public and societal. Ideas are driving events, and the consequences are tragic. Tammsaare entirely ignores 1917 in this pentalogy possibly because Volume III has already dealt with this subject. This volume is very much shorter than the others, and only about 70,000 words, but it is the dense and significant core of the pentalogy. It can stand on its own, but is also an integral part of the whole.
£15.76
Parthian Books The Lake
Book SynopsisA dystopian page-turner about the coming of age of a young hero, which won the 2017 EU Prize for Literature. A fishing village at the end of the world. A lake that is drying up and, ominously, pushing out its banks. The men have vodka, the women troubles, the children eczema to scratch at. Born into this unforgiving environment, Nami, a young boy, embarks on a journey with nothing but a bundle of nerves, a coat that was once his grandfather's and the vague idea of searching for his mother, who disappeared from his life at a young age. To uncover the greatest mystery of his life, he must sail across and walk around the lake and finally dive to its bottom.Trade Review'[T]he fresh water of Czech literature' - Hospodarske Noviny; '[O]ne of the most remarkable books of the last years.'- Mlada Fronta dnes; 'A criticism of the Soviet Union, of extinction, of the modern world. Written in such colourful way that one at times seems the stand in front of Andrej Tarkovsky's camera.' - Krajske Listy
£10.00
UEA Publishing Project Voices From The Outside: UEA Creative Writing
Book SynopsisAn anthology of ten translated texts across seven different languages, each concerned with the themes of moving between spaces, both figuratively and literally. From the graduates of the UEA Master's in Literary Translation 2019 and 2020.
£9.49
UEA Publishing Project Changes: UEA MA Translation Anthology: 2021
Book SynopsisThe latest volume of creative writing from the translation strand of UEA's world-renowned Creative Writing MA, from the 2020/21 student cohort.
£9.49
UEA Publishing Project No Date on the Calendar
Book SynopsisGrinding monotony. A diary of panic. The life of the home. A unique collaboration between Creative Writing students at UEA and students of Translation Studies at the University de Alcalá, Unmasked Writings/Historias desconfinadas is a series of five chapbooks mapping the emotional angles of the pandemic and giving voice to the long moments of introspection we all cultivated during the hardest months of this crisis. Each text is presented both in the original English and the translated Spanish.This is volume two, No Date on the Calendar / Sin fecha en el calendario.Cartoons by Willa Froy, translated by Soledad Benavente CeballosUnprecedented by Aayra Khawaja, translated by Javier Romero CastañedaWeekly Routine by Ryan Lenney, translated by Roberto Matei
£7.46
UEA Publishing Project Love From Afar
Book SynopsisStrained relations. Imposed reconnections. Fragile last missions. A unique collaboration between Creative Writing students at UEA and students of Translation Studies at the University de Alcalá, Unmasked Writings/Historias desconfinadas is a series of five chapbooks mapping the emotional angles of the pandemic and giving voice to the long moments of introspection we all cultivated during the hardest months of this crisis. Each text is presented both in the original English and the translated Spanish.This is volume three, Love From Afar/Amor a distancia.Can I Call You Back by Charlotte Brammer, translated by Silvia Sánchez TudelaIsolation Alone by Milly Barton, translated by Beatriz López Quiroga and Alumdena de Agustín PorrasThings Past Redress by Siobhan Horner, translated by Ángela Muro Arpón and Claudia Medrano González
£7.46
UEA Publishing Project Isolated Intimacies
Book SynopsisA digital invasion, and loving a child. Life and death in the garden. Encountering another's spirit. A unique collaboration between Creative Writing students at UEA and students of Translation Studies at the University de Alcalá, Unmasked Writings/Historias desconfinadas is a series of five chapbooks mapping the emotional angles of the pandemic and giving voice to the long moments of introspection we all cultivated during the hardest months of this crisis. Each text is presented both in the original English and the translated Spanish.This is volume four, Isolated Intimacies / En la intimidad de las historias.An Evening Discourse by Soe Thet San, translated by Candelas Bayón CentiagoyaBuffet of Death by Henry Johns. translated by Julia Martínez YolbaNightwalks by Denise Kuehl, translated by Rebeca Busto Acedo and Marta Rodrigo Rodríguez
£7.46
UEA Publishing Project Contactless
Book SynopsisPoetic reflection on disjointed life. A diary of a village approached by pandemic. A unique collaboration between Creative Writing students at UEA and students of Translation Studies at the University de Alcalá, Unmasked Writings/Historias desconfinadas is a series of five chapbooks mapping the emotional angles of the pandemic and giving voice to the long moments of introspection we all cultivated during the hardest months of this crisis. Each text is presented both in the original English and the translated Spanish.This is volume five, Contactless/Miradas-19.After Noon by Andre Hughes, translated by Aída López MilánContactless by Christopher Perry, translated by Aída López Milán
£7.46
UEA Publishing Project UEA MA Scriptwriting Anthology 2022
Book Synopsis2022 edition of the UEA MA Translation creative writing course anthology
£9.49
Headline Publishing Group The Competent Authority
Book Synopsis'Great is the Soviet Union, vast its territories, warm its entrails...' 1959. Whispers of dissidence are spreading in the U.S.S.R. Texts published in the West are circulating in samizdat, tormenting the secret police. Lieutenant Ivanov of the K.G.B, under pressure from his enraged superiors, is handed the case.Leads emerge, flare up, vanish. Years pass. 'Abram Tertz' publishes another short story, a new novel, mocking the competent authority. Shielded by his fierce wife Maria Vasilyevna Rozanova, Andrei Sinyavsky, one of the Soviet Union's most renowned and brilliant figures of resistance, waits in his wired apartment, drinking, sure his days as a free man are numbered.But as Rozanova continues to taunt Ivanov with her cheerful intransigence, a crisis of confidence opens up within the regime's resolve, causing the young lieutenant to wonder, 'are we actually as competent as we claim to be?''With the unique insight afforded by his mother, Rozanova, Gran pays remarkable homage to Andrei Sinyavsky, his father, reimagining the six long years leading up to his infamous arrest, trial and conviction. Framed within a riveting cat-and-mouse dynamic; irreverent and darkly comic, Gran balances a satirical lightness with deeper meditations on dogma and freedom of expression, state control and creative resistance, the ghosts of which, at a time when political criticism is being crushed once again, are as present today as ever before.Trade Review'A masterpiece' * Le Monde *'A funny and touching novel' * Temps *'Iegor Gran recounts this paper chase with a sarcastic tone, ridiculing the actions and words of a regime that promises happiness, but offers terror ... A remarkable portrait of the Soviet Union' * Elle *
£19.80
Dedalus Ltd My Father's House
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£9.99
Dedalus Ltd The Scaler of the Peaks
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£7.99
Dedalus Ltd The Victor
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£7.99
Dedalus Ltd The Soldiers Hat
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£11.89
Dedalus Ltd Take Six Six Estonian Women Writers
£11.39
UEA Publishing Project Literary Translation & Poetry: UEA MA Anthologies
Book SynopsisIn the writing of poetry and translations, everything and nothing is foreign; everything and nothing is new. This hybrid collection takes us across the globe, showcasing an impressive range of poetry and translated literature, examining places and sensations that are often as familiar as they are strange. In Venice, a woman realises that she is merely “The Photographer’s Girlfriend,” while in Chile, young love is quietly eroded by social and economic realities. Meanwhile, a Ugandan poet explores her family heritage, and the wisdom of Hermann Hesse is passed on in a new translation.
£9.49
Open Letter La Grande
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£14.39
Open Letter The Last Days Of My Mother
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£13.29
Open Letter The Elusive Moth
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£13.49
Open Letter The One Before
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£12.34
Open Letter Navidad And Matanza
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£12.34
New Vessel Press The Good Life Elsewhere
Book SynopsisA scathing satire and a tragicomic look at the poorest - and drunkest - country in Europe.
£13.29
New Vessel Press Some Day
Book SynopsisGripping family saga, filled with sex and cooking, some readers have called it the Israeli One Hundred Years of Solitude.
£14.39
New Vessel Press The Missing Year Of Juan Salvatierra
Book SynopsisThis story about family secrets and art is a feast of images lingering long after the final page is turned.
£11.39
New Vessel Press All Backs Were Turned
Book SynopsisAll Backs Were Turned, set in Israel, is a story of sexual passion, violence, and betrayal, in classic hardboiled prose.
£11.39
New Vessel Press Who Is Martha?
Book SynopsisA rollicking tale about facing death with verve and style, richly told with great feeling and historical depth.
£13.29
New Vessel Press Guys Like Me
Book SynopsisAn ode to Paris as rarely seen - a minutely observed tale about searching for love and a new lease on life.
£13.29
New Vessel Press Alexandrian Summer
Book SynopsisLove, lust, and the convulsions of history surge through this dazzling novel about the vanished cosmopolitan world of Alexandria.
£13.29
New Vessel Press The 6:41 To Paris
Book SynopsisBrilliant psychological thriller constructed like an intensely intimate theater performance, a high-wire act of emotions on rails.
£13.29
New Vessel Press The Madonna Of Notre Dame
Book SynopsisThis police novel illuminates the shadowy corners of Notre Dame Cathedral, shedding light on good and evil with wry humour.
£13.29
New Vessel Press The Piano Student
Book SynopsisA riveting and sensitive tale of musical perfection, love, and longing denied, with multiple historical layers and insights into artistic creativity
£13.29
Open Letter Lies, First Person
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£14.39
Open Letter Loquela
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£13.29
Open Letter Party Headquarters
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£12.34
Open Letter The Pets
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£11.39
